List of Enlightening Books
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Japanese version
This is a book list for students in physics courses. It includes
enlightening books of physics, scientific readings, essays by
physicists. It is based on the communications in
Young
Physicists Mailing Group in Japan.
This is not a complete English version of the list, but the
very short version of it. The reason is that the most books in
the original list are written in Japanese.
Introduction to Physics
- A. J. Legget, The Problems of Physics (Oxford UP, 1987)
- Jearl Walker, The flying circus of physics, with answers
(John Wiely & Sons, Inc., 1977)
Quantum Mechanics
- G. J. Milburn, The Feynman Processor (Perseus,
1998)
Chaos
- J. Gleick, Chaos (Penguin Book)
- N. Hall, The New Scientist Guide to Chaos (Penguin
Books)
- Per Bak, How Nature Works (Springer, NY, 1996)
Cosmology
- S. W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time (Bantam Books)
- P. Davies, The Edge of Infinity (J. M. Dent and Sons
Ltd., 1981/ Penguin Books, 1994)
General Physics
- P. C. W. Davies and J. Brown, Superstrings - A Theory
of Everything? - (Cambridge University Press)
- Paul Davies, The Cosmic Blueprint (William Heinemann,
1987 / Penguin Books, 1995)
- P. Coveney and R. Highfield, The Arrow of Time (Fawcett
Columbine Book, 1990)
General Science
Miscellaneous
- D. F. Hofstadter, G?del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden
Braid
Essays by Scientists
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